(ANSA) - Nuoro, December 15 - The mayor of a small Sardinian
town near Nuoro said on Facebook Friday she had been placed
under investigation for auction-rigging.
"I wanted to inform citizens that I have been notified a
request to continue investigations by Nuoro prosecutors," wrote
Dorgali Mayor Maria Itria Fancello, a member of the
anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S).
"It appears that, together with my husband, a former employee
of the Ghivine cooperative, and councillor Fabrizio Corrias, I
am under investigation for bid-rigging."
She added: As far as I have managed to reconstruct, I was not
aware of the activities".
The M5S prides itself on being above the corruption it says
blights other parties.
However, last year it changed its ethical code to say that
suspensions when being probed were no longer automatic.
Each case will now be judged on its merits, it said after
Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi was placed under investigation in an
appointments probe.
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